Reinhild Tetzlaff

Reinhild Tetzlaff (born December 12, 1944 in Gleiwitz , Silesia , † May 19, 2010 in Dresden ) was a German curator .

Life

Reinhild Tetzlaff came to Mecklenburg with her family from Gleiwitz in 1945 . After finishing school in 1960, she completed an apprenticeship as a concrete skilled worker with a high school diploma. From 1965 to 1968 she studied German studies and art education at the Pedagogical Institute, later the “Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander” University of Education in Dresden, among others with Heinz Quinger .

From 1970 to 1980 she worked as a museum assistant at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and in 1974 began studying art history , classical archeology and European architectural history at the Martin Luther University in Halle, among others with Hans-Joachim Mrusek , who she received in 1984 with a Dipl . Phil. Finished. A continuation of this work as a doctorate was refused for reasons of cultural policy.

From 1980 to 1998 she worked at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen and the Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus as head of the visual arts department, as well as deputy and acting director.

From 1999 she worked as an art historian, art expert, freelance curator and guest speaker, mainly in Dresden and at the University of Leipzig . In 2002/2003 Tetzlaff became the founding curator of the University Collections Art + Technology at the TU Dresden, where she worked as a curator from 2004.

Tetzlaff was buried on May 26, 2010 in the cemetery in the Dresden district of Gittersee .

Act

Reinhild Tetzlaff is particularly important for the Dresden artists of the GDR era, as she offered them a podium, realized exhibitions and edited catalogs during their work in Cottbus. She was not only able to recognize quality, but was also able to assert her opinion against the prevailing view of art in the GDR. Progressive abstraction and non-representational work characterize the works of art that shaped the basis of the museum until the political change.

Not least due to their work and the importance of the Cottbus house, the "Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Cottbus" became a state museum in 1991 under the name "Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus". Reinhild Tetzlaff remained true to her previous principles. She managed not to cover up the previous collection activity, but to place it in an international context. As acting director, she curated exhibitions with works by internationally recognized artists by A. R. Penck , Thomas Lenk , Heinz Mack , Emil Nolde and Emil Schumacher, and yet remained loyal to artists such as Karl-Heinz Adler , Hans Christoph , Herbert Kunze , Manfred Luther and other Dresden residents.

literature

• Claudius Noack, u. a .: Obituary for Reinhild Tetzlaff . In: Dresden University Journal . Volume 21, No. 10, June 8, 2010, p. 6 ( online as PDF; 5.1 MB)

Remarks

1. ^ Obituary notice on www.sz-trauer.de , accessed on September 3, 2012.